Commemoration of Venerable Ephrem the Syrian (373-379); Venerable Palladius the Ascetic (IV century); Venerable Isaac the Syrian, bishop of Nineveh (circa VII); Venerable Ephrem, bishop of Pereyaslav of the Kyivan Caves Abbey (circa 1098).
Thirty-third Sunday after Pentecost
Commemoration of Venerable Maximus the Confessor (662); Martyr Neophytus (305); Martyrs Eugene, Candidus, Valerian, and Aquila (303); Virgin-martyr Agnes (304); Martyr Anastasius (662); Venerable Maximus the Greek (1556); Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos “Hodigitria” (“Directress”) (4th century), and wonderworking “Paramythia” icon (807), of Vatopedi (Mount Athos).
Thirty-first Sunday after Pentecost. Sunday after Theophany. Afterfeast of the Theophany.
Synaxis [meeting] of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist, John.
The Holy Theophany, The Baptism Of Our Lord Jesus Christ
“Christ Is Baptized!”, “In the River Jordan!”
Christ Is Born! Let Us Glorify Him! Thirtieth Sunday after Pentecost, Leavetaking of the Nativity of Christ, Sunday before the Theophany
Commemoration of the Holy Ancestors Joseph the Betrothed, David the King, and James, the Brother-of-the-Lord; Venerable Melania (the Younger) of Rome (439); St. Peter Mohyla, Metropolitan of Kyiv and Galicia (1647).
The Nativity according to the flesh of Our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ
Christ Is Born! Let Us Glorify Him!
The adoration of the Magi: Melchior, Caspar, and Balthasar; Commemoration of the shepherds in Bethlehem who were watching their flocks and came to see the Lord.
The Eve of the Nativity of Christ
Christmas Holy Night
Christ Is Born! Let Us Glorify Him!
Strict fast 24 December, 2023. Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great.
Twenty-eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Commemoration of Great-martyr Barbara and Martyr Juliana at Heliapolis in Syria (306); Venerable John Damascene (776); Venerable John, bishop of Polybotum (716).
Twenty-seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Commemoration of Great-martyr James the Persian (421); Venerable Palladius of Thessalonica (6th-7th c.); 17 Monk-martyrs in India (4th c.); Venerable Romanus the Wonderworker of Cilicia (5th c.).
Nativity Fast (St. Philip’s Fast)
Twenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost. Forefeast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos (“God-Bearer”) into the Temple.
Twenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost Forefeast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos (“God-Bearer”) into the Temple. Commemoration of Venerable Gregory Decapolites (816); St. Proclus, archbishop of Constantinople (447); Martyr Dasius (303); Martyrs Eustace, Thespesius, and Anatolius of Nicaea (312); Hieromartyrs Nerses and Joseph; and John, Saverius, Isaac, and Hypatius, bishops of Persia; Martyrs Azades, Sasonius, Thecla, and Anna (343).